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AKONG THE THOUSANDS OF WORDS
IN THE LANGUAGE THERE IS
NO OMORE:QUEENLY WORD.

AAON6 Th 4 hVOSAN DS VE vvORDS
IN THE LANGUAGE THERE Is
NO MORE:QUEENLY WORD.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINT
TIMES DOES THE BIBLE
EULOGIZE GRACE.
WHILE YOUAREINA A FA YORABLE
MOOD FOR TT, ENTER INTO
LIFE.
DIR. TALMAGE's SERMON SUNDAY, OCT. 2ND
BROOKLYN, October 2.-The capacity fol
a still larger audience has been made at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. An adjoined lecture
room has been built so that during the week
it is used by itself, but on the Sabbath it is
thrown into the main auditorium and filled
by those sitting or standing. Notwith-
standing the enlargement the crowds that
90 away not able to get inside the building
are greater this fall than ever before. To-
day the pastor explained appropriate pas
sages of Scripture. Prof. Browne rendered
upon the organ the first Sonata in d Minor,
Ritter. The text of the sermon was from
II. Corinthians, chapter viii, 5. 9: eye
knew the grace Of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became po'r." DR.. Talmage said:
That all the worlds which on cold win
ter's night make the heavens one great
glitter ara inhabitantless is an absurdity.-
Philosophers tell us that many of these
worlds are too hot or too rarefied of atmos
,,l1 for raciHonna Pr1t if for
human abode, they maybe fit for beings diff
ferent from and superior to ourselves. We
are told that the world of Jupiter is chang
ing until it is almost ft for creatures like
the human race, and that Mars would do
for the human family with little change
in the structure of the respiratory organs.
But that there is great world swung some
where, vast beyond Imagination, and that
it is the headquarters of the universe, and
and the metropolis of immensity, and has a
population in numbers vast beyond all
statistics, and appointments Of splendor be-
yond the capacity of canvas, or poem, or
angel to describe, is as certain as the
Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the
astronomers with their big telescopes
have already caught glimpse Of it, not
knowing what it is. We spell it with six
letters, and pronounced it Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen
centuries ago He was the Kings's son.
1t was the old homestead of eternity, and
= IL it's castles were as old as God. Not a
frost had ever chilled the air.. Not a. tear
had ever rolled down the cheek of one of
its Inhabitants. There had never been in
it headache, or sideache, or heartache.
There had not been a funeral in the memo
nv of the oldest inhabitant. There had
never in all the land been woven a black
veil, for there had never been anything to
mourn over. The passage of millions of
years had not wrinkled or crippled or be-
dimmed any of its citizens. All the peo-
pie there were in a state of eternal ad-
olescence. What floral and pomonic
richness Gardens of perpetual bloom and
orchards in unending fruitage. Had some
spirit from another world entered and ask
ed, what is sin what is bereavement what
is sorrow what is death Z? the brightest of
the intelligences would have failed to give
definition, though to study the question
there we're silence in Heaven for half an
hour. The Prince of whom I speak had
honors, emoluments, acclamations, such as
no other prince. celestial or terrestrial. ever
enioyed. AS He passed the street, the in
habitants took off from their brows parlands
of white lilies and threw them in the way
He never entered any of the temples with
out all the worshippers rising up and bow-
ing in obeisance. In all the professions of
the high DAYS He was the one who evoked
the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot,
walking in loving talk with the hnmblest
of the land, but at other times He took
chariot. and among the twenty thousand
that David spoke Of His was the swiftest
and most flaming; or, as when John de-
scribed Him, He took white palfrey with
what prance of foot, and arch of neck, and
roll of name. and CLEAN of eve is only dim
ly suggested in the Apocalypse. He was
not like other princes, waiting for the Faith
er to die and then take the throne. When
a few years ago an artist in GERMANY made
a picture Tor the Royal Gallery represent.
ipe Emperor William on the throne, and the
Crown Prince as having one foot on the
step of the throne, Emperor William or
dered the picture changed and said: s'Le Let
the prince keep his foot off the throne till
leave it.'
Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father. What
a circle of dominion? What myrmidons of
admirers! What unending round of glo-
ries! All the towers chimed the Princes
praises. OF all the inhabitants, from the
centre of the city. on over the hills and clear
down to the beach against which the ocean
of immensity rolls in blllows, the Prince
was the acknowledged favorite. No won
der nv text saws that "He was rich." Set
all the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre.
build all the palaces of the earth in one AL
hambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in
one diadem, put all the values of the earth
in Que coin. the aggregate would not ex-
press his affiuence. Yes, Paul was right.
Solomon had in gold six hundred and e;gb-
ty million pounds and in silver one billion
twenty.pine million three hundred and
pounds sterling. But great
er than Solomon is here. Not the million.
aire. but the onadrillionaire of heaven. To
describe his celestial surroundings the BIZ
bic uses all colors. gathering them in rain.
how over the throne and setting them as
aoate in the temnle window and bost;ng
twelve of them into a wall from strined
Jasper at the base to transparent amethyst
in the canstone. while hetween are green of
amar.,d ind sn,yv of naaJ and hlra or ON.